Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social Resigned under T before it was cool. Head of ICE policy, 2023-25. Before: KIND, DHS, litigator. It really was better in the Before Times. shuchartlaw.com, scottshuchart.com
Foreign Policy @foreignpolicy.com The magazine for global politics, economics, and ideas.
https://foreignpolicy.com/
Maddie Oatman @moatmanjourno.bsky.social Writer and Editor / Senior Editor at Mother Jones
Andrew Kreighbaum @kreighbaum.bsky.social Immigration and labor reporter @bloomberglaw.com. Covering the legal and policy landscape affecting immigrant workers in the US.
Member of @wbng.org
Email: akreighbaum@bloombergindustry.com
Signal: kreighbaum.85
More reporting: https://aboutblaw.com/bj21
Ylenia Gostoli @yleniagostoli.bsky.social Award-winning journalist in #Istanbul / giornalista in #Turchia / gazeteci. Previously, three years in the West Bank via London
yleniagostoli.com
Matthew Hoppock @hoppock.bsky.social FOIA and Immigration Law and dumb jokes. 
Reprieve @reprievehq.bsky.social Reprieve is a legal action NGO. We are investigators, lawyers and campaigners fighting for justice. We defend people who are facing human rights abuses, often at the hands of powerful governments.
Peter Maass @maassp.bsky.social Recovering foreign correspondent slash war reporter. Author of “Love Thy Neighbor” and “Crude World.” Done time at the NYT, WP, Intercept.
Bilge Yesil @bilgeyesil.bsky.social Professor.
Author of Talking Back to the West.
ICA & NCA Best Book Award recipient.
Balochistan @balochistan0.bsky.social #Landscape #Photography #Balochistan
Usman Azfar @usmanazfar.com Amateur Film Maker
I make videos on British Mosques, Islamic History and Muslim Life
See my films on: www.youtube.com/UsmanAzfar
Kristen McTighe @kristenmctighe.bsky.social Recovering foreign correspondent. Previously in Cairo, Istanbul, Tunis, Madrid & Paris. 2x cancer survivor🎗️
Jessica Reed @iamjess.bsky.social Head of narrative, The Guardian. I edit US long form and essays. How to pitch me: see below. French. Based in Montana.
‘We can't stop here, this is bat country' - Hunter S Thompson.
Can Okar @canokar.bsky.social Who knows what I’ll write about here but maybe less Turkish politics? Or maybe more…
Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social Prof Comparative Politics Nottingham. Researches (& loves) S Asia. India Pakistan Sri Lanka. CPEC, Federalism, Majoritarianisms, HE, EDI & SEN.
Mum and wife of Long Covid sufferer.
Cats 🐈⬛, Brompton 🚴, Gardening.
Views expressed my own 
Andrea Stella @andreastella85.bsky.social 
Kenan Cruz Çilli @kenancruzcilli.bsky.social London-based writer & analyst | Interested in history, languages, cultures of Ottoman Empire & Turkey 
Surbhi Gupta @surbhigupta.bsky.social South Asia Editor @newlinesmag.bsky.social. Past includes Columbia Journalism, Indian Express and ACJ. Delhi girl. Also an SRK and Virat Kohli fan. 
Diana Dombrowski @dianadombrowski.bsky.social Investigative reporter at @bloomberglaw.com 📍NYC
Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) @balochyakjehticommittee.info Official Account of Baloch Yakjehti Committee Contact us at contact@balochyakjehticommittee.info
Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social Journalist covering prisons and harsh sentencing. More fun than I sound.
Nashville, TN
https://theintercept.com/staff/liliana-segura/
Signal: @lilianasegura.56
@charleslister1.bsky.social @charleslister1.bsky.social 
@policytensor.bsky.social @policytensor.bsky.social 
Joyce Karam @joycekaram.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief, AL-MONITOR | Professor, GWU
https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/china-middle-east-briefing-7305587918826319872/
Michael Zelenko @mvzelenko.bsky.social Executive Editor, Rest of World
Heather Barr @heatherbarr.bsky.social Women's rights associate director, Human Rights Watch. Alaskan in Cape Town. Queen of typos.
Bradley Secker @bradleysecker.bsky.social Photojournalist & portrait photographer in Istanbul. Brit. Covering migration & LGBT rights, politics, culture, news & features. Nat Geo Explorer. Rep by Panos Pictures. bradleysecker.substack.com / bradleysecker.com
Asad Dandia @asadfromnyc.bsky.social Local NYC historian, urbanist, organizer. I once sued the NYPD for spying on me, and now run a walking tour company called New York Narratives. Write to asad@newyorknarratives.com to chat!
(Trying to be more active here)
Murtaza Hussain @mazmhussain.bsky.social Writing @dropsitenews. Interested in books, tech, history, global affairs, and language. فارسی/اردو/TR/EN
Mustafa Qadri @mustafaqadri.bsky.social CEO @equidem.bsky.social Research Fellow @ihrb.bsky.social Board @forensicarchi.bsky.social and Corp Justice Coalition. Tragic music tastes. Views personal. #humanrights (he/him)
Nesi Altaras @nesialtaras.bsky.social Stanford phd in ottoman jewish history. diaspora montrealer. istanbul jew. Me karisheo en meseles. Eskriviendo bazen en djudio and eng, ve turkce
he/him/ijiko
Lisel Hintz @liselhintz.bsky.social Lecturer at SOAS. Studying identity, foreign policy, grand strategy, authoritarianism, resistance. Often through a media lens. Often in/on Turkey.
Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social Human rights expert. Global authoritarianism, transnational repression, Turkey and Eurasia, academic freedom. Entirely personal account.
Raziye Akkoç @razakkoc.bsky.social EU tech, trade & competition correspondent for AFP news agency via London, Ankara and Paris. Have I mentioned Turkey yet?
Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social Laurentian Associate Professor of History, St. Lawrence University.
Non-resident scholar, Stockholm University, Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS)
Focused on Turkey and the Middle East.
Unlikely to argue on-line. Blocks dumb, annoying, or noisy.
Arash Azizi آرش عزیزی @arashtehran.bsky.social Author WHAT IRANIANS WANT http://bit.ly/3IBwY9k SHADOW CMDER https://bit.ly/3KxlTqU | Historian at @yale | Writer @theatlantic | Repped by Aevitas
Vanessa Larson @vanessahlarson.bsky.social Journalist in D.C. after Istanbul. Bylines/copy editor at The Washington Post. Write on M.E. arts+culture. Formerly at Foreign Policy; Fodor's Travel Turkey guidebook writer. Türkçe.
Canan Coşkun @canancoskun.bsky.social Gazeteci | Journalist
Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social Prof of Middle East Politics at NYU Abu Dhabi. Tunisia, Turkey, Gulf. PhD St Antony's College, Oxford. Rhodes, Fulbright, Harvard WCFIA.
Religion & democracy. Tango & bizarre travel enthusiast. Perpetually craving Istanbul. Words in NYT, WaPo, TIME & more
Alexander Christie-Miller @achristiemiller.bsky.social Journalist/writer, formerly in Istanbul, now Norfolk. ‘To the City’ (William Collins/Pegasus). All posts have grammar/spelling errors. Retweets usually = endorsements. Opinions not my own unless stated otherwise, and even then probably still not my own.
Aaron Stein @aaronstein1.bsky.social President/CEO @fpri.bsky.social; Podcast w/ blogfather @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social; Recent Substacker; Author: US War Against ISIS. Views are all my own
Kareem Fahim @kareemf.bsky.social Middle East reporter
Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social Director of the Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies. Managing Director Consortium for European Symposia on Turkey. Docent (Assoc. Prof.) of and pontificator on international relations. Opinionated. Painter.
Kenan Behzat Sharpe @kenansharpe.bsky.social @keymanmts.bsky.social / Assistant Professor at Sabancı University 🌆 / book on Anatolian Rock in progress 🎸 / sometimes journalist 📝 / tweets on art & culture in Turkey 🎶
Amberin Zaman @amberinzaman.bsky.social Chief Correspondent Al Monitor
Özgecan Kara @ozgevon.bsky.social Director of Policy and Advocacy @European Youth Forum
Formerly Secretary General @Young European Greens
Posts in TUR&ENG. Based in Brussels. she/her.
hannah draper @jankypants.bsky.social the jankier the pants, the player you get
birdsite asylum seeker (formerly draperha) making this my new home
type-a bureaucrat professionally pushing papers in/around the middle east. history nerd, arabist, turkophile, news junkie, perpetually tired
Nicholas Danforth @nicholasdanfort.bsky.social 
New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social An award-winning magazine for the best writing from around the world. Longform essays and informative analysis run daily.
http://lnk.bio/newlinesmag
JamesInTurkey.com @jamesinturkey.com Turkish politics and elections website. Written by @michaeldaventry.com
Joshua Kucera @joshuakucera.bsky.social Iowan in Tbilisi. Senior analyst, South Caucasus, International Crisis Group.
Jennifer Hattam @jenhattam.bsky.social Freelance journalist in Istanbul covering enviro, social, urban issues + art/culture/food/travel: https://www.jenniferhattam.com
(You may know me as TheTurkishLife on Twitter)
Subscribe to my arts+culture newsletter: https://istanbuletcetera.substack.com
Jared Malsin @jmalsin.bsky.social WSJ journalist based in Istanbul. Former Middle East bureau chief for TIME. Turning and turning in the widening gyre.
https://www.wsj.com/news/author/jared-malsin
Erin Cunningham @erinmcunningham.bsky.social 🪬AP news director in Jerusalem; former Mideast editor + correspondent at WaPo. Previously in Cairo, Kabul, Gaza, Istanbul, Baghdad. All the pieces matter.
Begum Zorlu @begumzorlu.bsky.social Interested in contentious politics, gender and the dynamics of solidarity. Based at the Department of International Politics at City, St. George's University of London.
Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor.bsky.social Global affairs columnist @NewYorker.com. Dad. Victoria concordia crescit.
Jenny White @whitejenny.bsky.social Social anthropologist, novelist. Write about Turkish history, culture, politics, religion, gender, nationalism. Also Ottoman Empire (fiction). Emerita, live in Sweden. Love good literature, nature, science, art. jennywhite.net #Writer
Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social Award-winning foreign correspondent. Former @washingtonpost.com staff writer. Now: London. Previously: Baghdad, Beirut, Cairo. Email me: louisaloveluck@gmail.com.
Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof.bsky.social Chief Foreign-Affairs Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal. 📕Author of No Country for Love, Our Enemies Will Vanish, Siege of Mecca and Faith at War 📕 Yarotrof.com
zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
Humeyra Pamuk @humeyrapamuk.bsky.social @Reuters deputy US foreign policy editor. Eye on State Department. Before: London, Cairo, Dubai & Turkey. @columbiajourn @kocuniversity alum. Personal account.
Emily Wither @emilywither.bsky.social Istanbul-based correspondent making documentaries and reporting for BBC, Channel 4 News & others.
https://linktr.ee/EmilyWither
Arzu Geybulla @arzugeybulla.bsky.social Co-Executive Director, Access Now
Journalist
Louis Fishman لوي فيشمان לואי פישמן @istanbultelaviv.bsky.social Associate Prof Brooklyn College; Jews and Palestinians in the late Ottoman era: Turkish, Israeli/Palestinian affairs; working on a book focusing on a post-Oct 7 historical narrative of Palestine/Israel. Haaretz and more; Website: https://louisfishman.com/
Selim Koru @selimkoru.bsky.social Scholar of political ideas, Nietzsche, Turkey.
@TEPAV
Tweets in English & Turkish.
Words: @nytimes, @WarOnTheRocks, etc.
Substack: https://kulturkampftr.substack.com/
Derek Willis @dwillis.bsky.social I teach data journalism at the University of Maryland, run OpenElections. Fan of WBB & test cricket. Posting obscure things about campaign finance, Congress & elections.
https://github.com/dwillis
https://thescoop.org
https://buttondown.com/dwillis
👻 @0x0.sigint.team Security. People matter most. Get off X, fool.
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
Ali Gharib @ali-gharib.theintercept.com @ali_gharib
Editor
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Diego Cupolo @diegocupolo.bsky.social Co-founder, editor-in-chief, pun-runner @turkeyrecap.bsky.social. Pitch me.
Yaman Akdeniz @cyber-rights.org Academic, cyber-rights activist, and trouble-maker :) AYM tescilli "kamu gözcüsü" 
Turkey recap @turkeyrecap.bsky.social The independent, reader-supported newsletter on Turkish politics & business. Pun-tification included. Türkçe için: @studyorecap.bsky.social
Paul Benjamin Osterlund @paulosterlund.bsky.social Istanbul-based independent journalist.
Check out my Substack FLANÖR
flanor.substack.com
Nick Ashdown @nickashdown.bsky.social Canadian journalist/writer in Brussels writing mostly about Turkey. New Lines Magazine, LA Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Foreign Policy, Globe & Mail, etc.
Selected clippings: https://nickashdown.weebly.com/selected-published-works
Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social Managing editor/local at ProPublica, past prez of AHCJ, Detroit Lions fan. Email: charles.ornstein@propublica.org. Posts are my own.
Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social Already living in the future of news at Newspack. Board at @muckrock. Former @propublica. Hoping for the best.